Taboo - The Wishbone Trilogy, Part One; Poems (Paperback)

With the allusive leaps and improvisational chops of a jazz soloist, Yusef Komunyakaa is our great poet of connectivity--the secret blood that links slave and master, explorer and native, stranger and brother. In "Taboo" he examines the role of blacks in Western history, and how these roles are portrayed in art and literature. In taut, meticulously crafted three-line stanzas, Rubens paints his wife looking longingly at a black servant; Aphra Behn writes "Oroonoko" "as if she'd rehearsed it/for years in her spleen"; and in Monticello, Thomas Jefferson is "still/at his neo-classical desk/musing, but we know his mind/is brushing aside abstractions/so his hands can touch flesh." "Taboo" is the powerful first book in a new trilogy by a Pulitzer Prize-winning poet whose work never ceases to challenge and delight his readers.

General

Imprint:	Farrar Straus Giroux
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Wishbone Trilogy, Part 1
Release date:	March 2006
First published:	March 2006
Authors:	Yusef Komunyakaa
Dimensions:	209 x 143 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	144
ISBN-13:	978-0-374-53015-0
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Poetry texts & anthologies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-374-53015-7
Barcode:	9780374530150

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